McConnell: ObamaCare hikes costs and kills jobs

8:21 AM,
Jul. 12, 2013

Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the Senate Republican leader.

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Mitch McConnell

With the Obama administration's decision last week to delay significant provisions of ObamaCare, the White House seems to be finally, if slowly, admitting what Americans already know: ObamaCare costs too much and isn't working as promised.

And yet, the administration's solution isn't to fix the problem by replacing the law with common sense reforms that could actually lower costs for Americans-but rather to get a better spokesperson.

Since ramming ObamaCare [the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010] through Congress more than three years ago, administration officials ...